FREE-ELECTRON LASERS IN THE X-RAY REGION. Conference Paper

abstract

• An x-ray free-electron laser (FEL) must operate with large gain per pass because of the poor quality of available mirrors at x-ray frequencies. The authors present a one-dimensional analysis of the gain regimes for x-ray FEL's and consider the example of a 5A FEL operating with a uniform wiggler of wavelength 3. 2 cm. They also estimate constraints on such a device imposed by effects such as diffractive spreading of the laser beam, energy spread and emittance of the electron beam, and transverse variations in the wiggler field.

authors

• Scully, Marlan

published proceedings

• AIP Conference Proceedings

author list (cited authors)

• Gea-Banacloche, J., Moore, G. T., & Scully, M. O.

complete list of authors

• Gea-Banacloche, J||Moore, GT||Scully, MO

publication date

• December 1984

published in

• AIP Conference Proceedings  Journal

International Standard Book Number (ISBN) 10

• 088318317X

start page

• 161

end page

• 172

issue

• 118